Agreed. I love stacking the months like that and turning it into a never-ending river of days, looks like it'd be easier to estimate the length of time between two different months.
I was just about to post this same video. The trouble they had with the big generator at the field site was interesting. I imagine that like a Tesla it can charge from a 120VAC 15A (or euro/world 230-240V, 10A circuit) overnight, but it will be much, much slower to reach full capacity. It's good that they honestly state the limitations that it's best suited for flight training applications where it will always return to the same field.
Imagine trying to fly that thing from Perth to Adelaide in individual 50-minute hops between outback airfields... Impossible.
Yeah, the reality check in that video was eye opening. Clearly it’s a deliberate strategy to roll these things out at flight schools at first, so they’re always circling within landing range.
Electric planes will definitely graduate to short hop commutes eventually though and not just be niche training vehicles, especially when you consider how much safer they are than jet engines: they have way less moving parts, require less maintenance, and most importantly, they don’t stress the airframe nearly as much.
And that’s just with current airplane designs retrofitted for electric (which is essentially what these training planes are) instead of the upcoming designs that are built with many small electric motors and not the giant jet engines.
Lilium is an example of the new style of electric plane, with motors distributed through the wing:
Yep, and quiet electric motors is why air taxis could be a real thing again in major cities. E.g. Uber partnered with NASA to try to bring them to Los Angeles before the 2028 Olympics, with 18 heliports scattered around the county.
Can confirm. The founder of this site is actually a close personal friend that started teaching me about this stuff years ago, first in a more casual way when catching up and then recently much more in-depth as he started documenting his experience.
I'm still more of a prepper lurker that's reading up on this stuff while friends are starting to take it more seriously. I personally don't know if prepping is a fad like cold war-era nuclear bunkers, a potential lifesaver like a beefed up version of the red cross emergency kits, or somewhere in between as a useful hobby like hiking and camping, but my inner research nerd is having a great time learning more.
It helps that my YC team was a product review website and there's a lot of gear junkies in the survivalist crowd, so that's been my entry point into it, not so much the angle on being freaked out about the news.
I also liked the article's critique of Western philosophy as being too analytical and divorced from real life. Apparently that wasn't always the case in the ancient world and philosophy had more practical application, which probably explains the revival of Stoicism lately as well.
A good starter book on the Stoics that also reinterprets the ancient lessons for the modern age:
I wonder if Stoicism's rise is also related to organized religion's decline and society's increasing secularization, since both Stoicism and organized religion give concrete guidelines on how you go about your day-to-day.
Western philosophy has been divorced from real life for quite a while, and Stoicism's rise seems relatively young comparatively.
I've always thought that the revival of Stoicism is because 20th century philosophy messed with our heads to such an extent that we were left with an empty husk of our former selves, like ghosts floating in a meaningless world, and all we could do was laugh at ourselves to exhaustion lest we commit suicide.
No, I think it's a reaction against the new-agey types that pick up stuff so often from Eastern philosophical and religious traditions. Basically it's new-agey stuff for people that would never be willing to conceive of themselves as anything like a new-agey person.
Ugh, it's so much noise for your neighbor though. I worked next to someone with an old IBM keyboard for a year and was grumpy the entire time. Couldn't find headphones strong enough to cancel out what sounded like someone shooting an automatic weapon in the office.
I think there's a happy medium with the quieter cherry switches. But yeah, I don't use a mechanical keyboard in settings where I'm right next to other people.
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Dude, congrats on the hustle! How did you land your first artist and convince them to crowdfund? Was it a weird experiment for them or totally natural?
Well, as you know, I had relationships in the music industry from my previous gigs at music startups. One in particular, the manager of The Grouch & Eligh, was someone I could truly geek out with regarding these geeky matters. I had just finished doing a bunch of research on successful campaigns at the same time The Grouch & Eligh were looking to put out an album. Took a little convincing (as often is the case with crowdfundig virgins), but the reasons were too compelling.
I can say with authority that the hesitancy I felt from artists just 1-2 years ago regarding crowdfunding has rapidly been deteriorating. Like exponentially. So much so that I don't mind giving away some of my tricks. There's just so much more demand than there are actual "experts" in this space.
Yeah, the MDRV6 with Beyerdynamic Velour earcushions are my secret sauce for getting in the zone. The stock pleather earpads will give you "hot ears" that make long shifts uncomfortable.
If you keep going down the audiophile rabbit hole like I did, next up is a DAC or a tube amp. A good starter cheap one (sub $100) is the Qinpu:
That's not the default behavior for inline elements. In that example with the 4 hearts, you can imagine a visually ugly effect where a browser width is narrow enough to show 3 of them and the last one drops to a new line.
It's so rare to find a workplace in SF that's not an open office plan that some of the most productive people retreat to remote work just to get shit done in their home office, like Rands did with his Nerd Cave:
Talking about the productivity of private offices could be a major attractor, the way Microsoft way back in the day had a big poster for college recruiting that was a photo of a door and the words "you'll get one of these" on it.
